Care Assistant Nights

Springcare Care Homes Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Early pay via Wage Stream

Blue Light Card discounts

Fully funded training (level 2–5)

Refer a friend scheme

Counselling and wellbeing support

Family friendly policies

Robust recruitment process

Job summary

Westwood Hall is seeking caring individuals for Night Care Assistant shifts (8pm–8am). The role involves supporting residents with daily living, meals, and activities, while ensuring dignity and safety at all times.

Benefits include access to a company pension, early pay options, the Blue Light Card, funded training from level 2 to 5, and a refer-a-friend scheme. Join a team that values compassion and personal development.

Qualifications

• Caring, compassionate nature with the ability to communicate clearly.
• Willingness to learn and follow care plans and procedures.
• Respect for residents and ability to maintain dignity at all times.

Responsibilities

• Help residents with washing and dressing.
• Assist with feeding and mealtimes.
• Learn residents interests and needs to tailor activities.
• Carry out general housekeeping in private and communal areas.
• Support residents’ wellbeing through activities and social engagement.

Skills

compassion

communication skills

patience

attention to detail

computer literacy

Job description

Westwood Hall - Care Assistant Nights 3 x 36

We now have an opportunity for carers to join Springcare, where every day you can make a difference to someone's life.

Here at Springcare, we believe that good carers have many great qualities that make them excellent at their job.

What qualities does it take to be a Care Assistant at Springcare?

• compassion, sensitivity and understanding
• a desire to help people
• people skills and excellent communication skills
• patience and the ability to keep calm and work well under pressure
• to be thorough and pay attention to detail
• to be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer or hand-held device

Not only do our care team provide nursing care to our residents, they also help to make our residents lives fulfilled, treat each resident with dignity & respect, and care for them all as if they were their own family.

About the role:

Some of the daily tasks that a carer at Springcare would carry out would include:

• helping with washing and dressing
• Assisting with feeding and mealtimes
• finding out and knowing residents interests and needs.
• general housekeeping such as tidying residents' private bedrooms and communal areas
• supporting each resident’s physical and mental wellbeing through activities.

Our care team provide 24-hour care, where day care shifts are worked from 8am until 8pm, and night-time shifts are from 8pm until 8am.

Typical Shift patterns for Night Contracts

• 8pm until 8am

What Springcare can offer to you:

• Permanent full and part time day or night contracts – with access to our work placed pension scheme
• Early pay using Wage Stream App – you can withdraw up to 50% of your earnings in advance of your pay
• Access to Blue Light Card – where you can make savings across hundreds of national retailers
• Fully funded training for nationally recognised qualifications (level 2 through to 5) with internal career progression opportunities
• Refer a friend £££ scheme for each friend that you recommend (T&C apply)
• Access to counselling and wellbeing support
• Family friendly policies
• Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal

If you are interested in becoming a carer with Springcare, have the qualities that we believe make our carers fantastic, we would love to hear from you and be part of your journey in care.

Successful applicants would require two written references, a standard/enhanced DBS (depending on role) and evidence of a right to work in the UK check.

Springcare are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all of our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care.